Restructuring...

Just finished the mother-of-all-changes to the source code – a solid two weeks of hackage to some code that’s been in there right from the beginning!

Basically, the old island structure class wasn’t up to what I required, so it’s been ripped out & replaced with the concept of a ‘structure cell’. These replace the old single structure, providing a generic mounting point for a small complex of structures and objects all working towards a single purpose. Damaging any ‘working object’ in the cell will reduce the efficiency of the cell’s work (e.g. object production / raw material extraction). Also makes the islands look better as well as being more flexible for procedural sub-structure and related object placement.

Structures with a view:

Manta employing the new bomblet pod:

Now I'm off for my summer hols after that hackage workout - cya in a few weeks :PP.S. Hope you notice the todo list up there is actually shrinking... :)

We went camping for the weekend about a month back. Went out there Friday night and that was ok, but it pissed down all day Saturday and Saturday night while we slept, frigging squirrels got into our cooler and robbed a bunch of food (little barstewards!)

Sunday morning we got up and there was food remnants everywhere, Mosquitoes were swarming like crazy because of all the rain on Saturday and we just said "screw this", packed up and went home..

We were thinking of going away this weekend, but everything's fully booked (school hols and all) - the missus suggested going camping, but I think I'll give it a while before I try that again..

Ours is 3 now - not so much a crying baby any more as a 'get into bed with you and the Missus in the middle of the night and steal all the covers and squirm around a fair bit till he's comfy and you're hanging over the edge of the bed' toddler - but he's great..